Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add patman patch automation script

[Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>]

Simon,

Am 03.05.2015 um 21:54 schrieb Simon Glass:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> On 3 May 2015 at 13:16, Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
>>> This tool is a Python script which:
>>> - Creates patch directly from your branch
>>> - Cleans them up by removing unwanted tags
>>> - Inserts a cover letter with change lists
>>> - Runs the patches through checkpatch.pl and its own checks
>>> - Optionally emails them out to selected people
>>
>> Don't get me wrong but is this really worth 3000+ lines of python?
>> The tasks you describe can be done using a few lines bash.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> patman $@
> 
> I obviously failed in my attempt to briefly explain what it does.
> Please check out the cover letter [1], README [2], or perhaps use it
> on a series. With respect to the length, it could be slimmed down a
> bit if that is important.

the README file did the trick. ;)
Sounds like a useful tool to manage patch series.

But I don't think it makes much sense to carry it with the Linux kernel tree.
Other projects can also use it and it does not seem to be very Linux kernel
specific.
git, quilt and other great tools also have their own repositories.

Thanks,
//richard